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THE Sanskrit text of the Buddha-karita was published at the beginning of last year in the 'Anecdota Oxoniensia,' and the following English translation is now included in the series of 'Sacred Books of the East.' It is an early Sanskrit poem written in India on the legendary history of Buddha, and therefore...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, a été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: Le géant, rugissant de colère, prit alors ses bottes de sept lieues et se mit à la poursuite des fugitifs. Ceux-ci étaient déjà...

It is 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales - a partial victory, but also a deeply significant one. This free anthology of extracts from Manifold Press titles illustrates in a modest way the changes experienced by gay men over the centuries in Britain, and how these may have affected individuals.

This is a physician’s true story encompassing a myriad of authentic patient histories. Readers will find themselves intimately connected to the patient, the doctor and the too often dramatic medical issues which they are bound to resolve together. Each episode vividly depicts an individual woman’s...

So what does a single guy do when most of his mates get married? For Roland, a twenty-seven-year-old public servant who lives with his parents, it results in a solo overseas trip that triggers a life-long obsession. Roland wanders the globe, through the continents of Europe, Africa,...

As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons we began to publish in 1974 this series devoted to Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the Euro­ pean Association of Neurosurgical Societies. The fact that the English language...

There are two important reasons for commencing this new series of publi­ cations entitled "Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery": 1. the lack of any organized common European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons and 2. the language barriers, which impede the...

Over recent years, much renal research has focused on the pathology of the glomerulus, where many primary renal insults occur. However, nearly thirty years have passed since Risdon's study made the apparently anomalous observation that the extent of damage to the tubulointerstitial compartment is...

In bone surgery it is essential to compress fractures interfragmentarily in order to make them resistant to the tensile force of muscles and the force resulting from acceleration and deceleration. This can be best achieved by the use of cable tension bands as a traction mechanism. The cable tension...

cells, and the testicular localization of the intermediate filament protein nestin, known to be expressed in neural stem cells, by our group was the first step to define mural cells (pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells) of the testis microvascu- ture as the stem/progenitor cells of the adult...

Extrait : "C'est bien le plus modeste de tous les sanctuaires, c'est, dans une chambre disposée en chapelle, un tout petit oratoire dont presque personne ne connaît l'existence, qui seul rappelle aujourd'hui le souvenir du martyre de saint Denis, sur les lieux qui en furent témoins. Il se trouve au...

Nihilisme, anarchisme, bruut geweld - ze spatten van elke bladzijde. Toch is Duivels geen politiek traktaat waarin de schrijver ons zijn mening opdringt, maar een veelstemmige roman die de lezer meesleurt langs de verschillende excessen van de vrije gedachte. Een Russische stad in het midden van de...

Hoe krijgt iemand het voor elkaar om anderen de politieke moord te laten begaan die hij gepleegd wil zien? In 1869 vermoordde de 22-jarige 'revolutionair' Sergej Netsjajev met enkele medestanders een 'verrader' uit eigen rijen. Hijzelf slaagde er als enige in geruime tijd uit handen van de politie...